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Concerning the Stars

There are four types of stars, i.e. Wanderers, Standers, Falling Stars and Fire-Tails.
The first type is called 'Wanderers' because they wander through the skys.
The second type is called 'Standers' because they remain unmoving far from the Sun.
The third type is called 'Falling Stars' because they fall toward the Earth.
The fourth type is called 'Fire-Tails' for they are seen beyond the Sun, and also, they have a bright tail of fire.
The sun, though burning with rage, is a relative of the types of stars.

Luinos Eluid.
Rha pene ngheinaedd ech elui, er ei: Meliaen, Techaen, Eilychaenín ebo Ffaeddeirín.
Ca i geina eile nowad Meliaen muin feliath ono derchilad.
Ca i geina finin nowad Techaen muin agarroth gemelen ca Nhil.
Ca i geina beilidd nowad Eilychaenín muin luchoth noth Enyrdd.
Ca i geina benin nowad Ffaeddeirín muin gath tiledd non Dil, hai, rhath ddor ell no ffai.
Ei Til, talnast e gwedd, ennen no geinaeddad ech elui.

Morpheme Analysis:
P:  plural
N: nasalization
L : lenition

These indicate that the process has already occured.
For example:  techaen+P shows that the word _techaen_ is already pluralized. Similarly, N+nhil indicates that the word _nhil_ is already nasalized, and therefore the base is _til_. Suffixes are indicated with a dash.

Luinos Elui+P-d
Rha pene  N+nghein-aedd ech elui+P, er ei: Meliaen+P, Techaen+P,  Eilychaen-ín ebo Ffaeddeir-ín.
Ca i L+geina eile now-ad Meliaen+P muin L+felia-th ono L+derchil+P-ad.
Ca i L+geina L+finin now-ad Techaen+P muin agarr-oth gemelen ca N+Nhil.
Ca i L+geina L+beilidd now-ad Eilychaen-ín muin L+luch-oth noth Enyrdd.
Ca i L+geina L+benin now-ad Ffaeddeir-ín muin L+ga-th til-edd non L+Dil, hai, rha-th L+ddor ell no ffai.
Ei til, tal-nast e gwedd, ennen no L+gein-aedd-ad ech elui+P.

GRAMMAR:
I.  Mutations: These are grammaticalized phonological processes which affect nouns, verbs, adjectives, and sometimes prepositions. There are three types of mutations, the nasal mutation, the spirant mutation and lenition.

Lenition: Nasal Mutation: Spirant Mutation:
t > d       t > nh          t > th
c > g       c > ngh         c > ch
p > b       p > mh          p > ph/ff
d > dd      d > n           d > dd
g > ZERO    g > ng          g > g
b > f /v/   b > m           b > f /v/
m > f /v/                   m > f /v/
ll > l
rh > r

A) Lenition most often occurs after prepositions. It also occurs on adjectives when they follow a noun and on all direct objects.
B) Nasal Mutation most often occurs after some numbers and prepositions.
C) Spirant Mutation occurs after some prepositions.

II.   Plurals: Nindic nominal plurals are very complicated. In this text three types of plurals occur.

A) Vowel Change (Umlaut) plurals change the vowels in the stem to front vowels. This plural type is one of the most common, and occurs in most words which end in a consonant and have back vowels (or /E/) in the singular.

A few vowel change patterns are shown below:
  a > ei
  aCaC > eCaeC
  o > e
  aCeC > eCiC
  oCoC > eCyC
  oCo#  > eCui

B)  Nasal Suffix plurals contain the consonant /n/. There are many subtypes of this plural, including -on, -n, -ín and Vowel Change + -n. These are most often added to words already containing front vowels in the singular. It is also added to words ending in -e. Other hard and fast rules have not yet been recorded.

C) -AEDD plurals are peripheral plurals which are almost always formed from words ending in -a and -as. However, some words denoting animals and a few other nouns alternate using this plural or a nasal plural. The suffix sometimes causes the stem vowels to change.

III. Definiteness: There are two ways of showing that a noun is definate. When a noun stands alone (that is, when it is not described by an adjective), then it takes the suffix -(a)d. When it is followed by an adjective, the definite article _i_ is used which causes the noun to be lenited.

IV. VERBS: For the purposes of this text, only the following things must be noted:

A) The suffix -nast is a conjunctive suffix which indicates that the action of a subordinate verb occurs simultaneously with the action of the main verb.
B) The suffix -edd is the past participle suffix. It is used with the verb _cei_ to form passive sentences.
C) The suffix -(a/o/e)th is the 3rd person plural present suffix. The vowel used is the almost always the same as the vowel in the stem of the verb. If the verb stem ends in a vowel, it most often ends in -th.
D) The 3rd person singular present is most often -r, however in a few irregular verbs it is zero.

IMPORTANT WORD ORDER:
Nindic is mostly VSO.
Adjectives follow noun.
VOCABULARY
ca /ka/ - far from, away from (+ nasal mutation)
cei /ke:/ - to get (passive voice) (stem: ca-)
ceina /ke:na/ - type, species, kind
dor /dor/ - tail
e /E/ - in + spirant mutation
ebo /Ebo/ - and
ech /Ex/ - of, out of, from - (+ spirant mutation)
egaerri /Egajri/ - to stay (stem: agarr-)
eiddel /e:DEl/ - to be (stem: ei-)
eile /e:lE/ - first
eilychaen /elyxajn/ - falling star, meteorite
ell /El/ - bright
ennen /En:En/ brother not related by blood, tribesman
Enyrdd /EnyrD/ - Earth
er ei /Ere:/ - that is, i.e
ffaeddeire /fajDe:rE/ - comet, fire-tail
ffai /faj/ - fire
gemelen /gEmElEn/ - unmoving
gwedd /gwED/ - rage, anger
hai /haj/ - and, also, in addition, as well as
luino /lwino/ about, concerning, pointing toward, for the sake of, etc. (luinos before vowels)
llychi /Kyxi/ - to fall (stem: lluch-)
meli /mEli/ - to move, wander (stem: meli[a]-)
melian /mElian/ - planet, wanderer
minin /minin/ - second
muin /mwin/ - because (+ lenition)
no /no/ - genitive, relational particle (+ lenition)
non /non/ - beyond, far from (+ lenition)
noth /noT/ - towards, for (+ spirant mutation)
now /no:/, /now/ - name
olo /olo/ - star
ono /ono/ - among (+ lenition)
peilidd /pe:liD/ - third
pene /pEnE/ - four (+ nasal mutation)
penin /pEnin/ - fourth
rheil /rhe:l/ - to have (stem: rha-)
Tachan /taxan/ - stander
tarchel /tarxEl/ - sky
teili /te:li/ - to burn (stem: tal-)
Til /til/ - sun
tili /tili/ - to see (stem:  til-)